Chapter 3: Drawing

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This week is about Chapter 3: Drawing.The authors spend a good part of this chapter emphasizing the importance of letting children draw, after all, children naturally know how to draw, and to the little ones, drawing is their way of writing.The authors go into details on how to teach the children how to sketch people using ovals. Much of this chapter models a lesson on sketching for the little ones. Drawing is an important part of the writing process, even for older children. It is important that we support the drawing part of the writing process. Here are some ways to support drawing:

Model the process of drawing for your students. Dedicate some of your mini-lessons to just drawing.